By David in TN
friday, november 17, 2023 at 4:31:00 p.m. est
TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Will Price’s Strange Bargain (1949), with Jeffrey Lynn, Martha Scott, Harry (Henry) Morgan, Richard Gaines, Katherine Emery and Henry O’Neill.
Film Noir Guide: “Lynn plays one of the most sympathetic characters in all of film noir. In the hole financially every month, with a wife (Scott), two kids, and a mortgage, the assistant bookkeeper approaches his boss (Gaines) for a raise, only to be told that business is so bad that he’ll have to be let go. Lynn is shocked when Gaines tells him that he’s planning to commit suicide and needs his help to make his death look like a murder so his wife and son can collect the insurance money.
“Lynn refuses but the persistent Gaines calls him later that evening and tells him to hurry over. When he gets to Gaines’ house, he finds an envelope addressed to him containing ten grand, a gun and the man’s body. Inside the envelope is a note begging him to do the right thing. Lynn, acting according to Gaines’ instructions, goes outside with the gun, shoots two bullets through the window and then disposes of the weapon.
“Homicide detective Morgan investigates and decides that Lynn’s new boss (O’Neill) is the logical suspect, leaving Lynn in a serious moral dilemma—tell what he knows to protect O’Neill or keep quiet so Gaines’ family can collect the insurance. Strange Bargain is a low-budget, but gripping, suspense film with an enjoyable surprise ending.”
David in TN: Richard Gaines was always playing an unsympathetic boss. Double Indemnity (1944) is an example.
jerry pdx
ReplyDeleteAshling Murphy, a beautiful 23 year old primary school is stabbed to death by a slovakian (moslem?) alien invader in Ireland, a country that is being overrun by moslems, negroes and pakis. Her boyfriend is, thankfully, not an apologist for 3rd world scum but speaks honestly and truthfully from the heart:
Ryan Casey, Ms Murphy’s partner of six years, said it “sickens me to the core” that Puska was able to come and enjoy all the benefits of living in Ireland before destroying someone who represented everything good in Irish society.
He said: “I feel this country is no longer the country Ashling and I grew up in. This country needs to wake up.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/murderer-of-irish-schoolteacher-ashling-murphy-sentenced-to-life-in-prison/ar-AA1k5PG3?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=2723aff279bb40aebff75bd72f8d89c8&ei=54
The killer is described as a "slovakian immigrant" but look at his photo, does that look like a true European to you? His name is Jozeph Puska which sounds like a European name but many slovaks hail from the Balkan region which has a significant moslem population leftover from the Ottoman empire era in not too recent history. I couldn't find any information on whether or not this guy is a current follower of the "religion of peace" but I'd be willing to bet that he is. Witnesses on the scene thought he was an arab too:
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/10/23/woman-tells-murder-trial-man-was-following-her-for-quite-a-bit-of-time-on-day-ashling-murphy-was-killed/
Ireland has been practicing an open door policy for migrants resulting in dramatic demographic change in recent years, current President Michael D. Higgins, and globalist pawn, doesn't even believe in borders:
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2023/01/31/president-higgins-migration-and-borders/
And the Irish thought the British were the great satan, turns out it's traitors among themselves that will be the end of their unique culture and identity as a people.
TCM"s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Cornel Wilde's Storm Fear (1956) with Cornel Wilde (he both directs and stars), Jean Wallace, Dan Duryea, David Stollery, Lee Grant, Steven Hill, Dennis Weaver.
ReplyDeleteFilm Noir Guide: "A wounded bank robber (Wilde), on the lam with what's left of his gang (Hill and Grant), holes up at the isolated farmhouse of his sickly brother (Duryea) and sister-in-law (Wallace). Has-been writer Duryea isn't at all happy to see his younger brother, the black sheep of the family Wallace's lover. Twelve-year old Stollery believes that Duryea is his dad and that Wilde is his uncle, but it's really vice-versa."
"Weaver (TV's McCloud), a hired hand with a yen for Wallace, is more of a dad to Stollery than Duryea OR Wilde. While Wilde tries to make up for lost time with Wallace, psycho Hill, who does a fine job as an unstable gang member with a greedy eye on the loot, spends HIS time beating up the sickly Duryea, threatening Stollery and trading insults with dipso Grant."
"Hill is better known for his roles on Mission Impossible and Law & Order. This suspenseful noir, an amalgam of The Desperate Hours and Key Largo was also produced by Wilde."
David In TN: Steven Hill went from a psycho gang member to leader of Impossible Missions to Manhattan District Attorney.